Limavady farmer fined £275 for pollution offence

Mr Colin Boyd, of Windyhill Road, Limavady, was fined for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.

On 2 December 2011, a Water Quality Inspector, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, responded to a report of pollution and inspected a tributary of the Curly River adjacent to the Windyhill Road, Limavady. The waterway smelled strongly of silage effluent. Approximately 500 metres of waterway was affected. The source of the polluting discharge was traced to a farm owned by Mr Boyd.

A sample taken at the time of the incident confirmed that the discharge contained poisonous, noxious or polluting matter which was potentially harmful to fish life in the receiving waterway.